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‘Colton comes out of the closet’ is not that documentary


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Colton Underwood in 'Colton Comes Out.
Colton Underwood in ‘Colton Comes Out.

When in the spring of 2021, Colton Underwood, a participant in The Bachelor, decided to publicly come out of the closet, American pop culture was faced with a delusional situation. a clash between The Real and the TV. About all this could have been made a good documentary. Colton goes up to the armory It’s not that documentary. On how reality TV is made, a good series could have been made. that series is UnReal.

Who had lied to America, The Bachelor, Colton Underwood or the audiovisual tradition since the beginning of the 20th century? While the country was asking itself these questions, in a pirouette of showbusiness as logical as it was rude, Underwood himself orchestrated his entry into Lo Gay like the star of a movie. reality show American trash: with a Netflix series. Colton goes up to the armory s is that series.

The Bachelor, whose literal translation would be The Bachelor or maybe better The groom, is a US television institution. The show is a dating show in which you either decide to believe in the myth of romantic love or better change the channel. Hence, for example, the supposed virginity of Colton Underwood was used by the program as an element on which to build its narrative. all in The Bachelor is puerile and old-fashioned, the quotes, the statements, the love at first sight, but America loved the show and whether they believed it or not didn’t matter. But believe it. The coming out of the closet of one of its stars was therefore not interpreted as a breach of the fiction pact with the viewer, but as a scam that star had slipped an entire nation. Besides, that was just the latest chapter in a much more complex and darker story: in 2020, the girl he dated in The Bachelor He accused him of stalking and Underwood received a restraining order.

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In Colton comes out of the closet all this is part of a traumatic past that its protagonist says he wants to leave behind between chubby and muscular. Leaving the Hetero and entering the Gay as if passing through the interdimensional portal of Stargate. Throughout the episodes of the series, this former athlete tells “his” to the representatives of his past: his parents, his brothers, his friends from church, his pastor… At the same time, Underwood explores the options that offers him the new world he is delighted to join. That “the community” or “the group” that often forgets the meaning of its existence (fight for rights and freedoms) and launches itself to promote homosexuality as a lifestyle. When in Colton goes up to the armory They teach us how difficult it is to reconcile that with believing in the Old Testament, one cannot help but burst out laughing… followed by a good deal of anger. It is not that the series misses the opportunity to talk about the United States, that country of extremes, ignorance and radicalism, through one of its most absurd media scandals, it is that it does not even consider it. Colton Underwood don’t tim anyone because he’s not smart. Neither does his series: it’s as white trash as he is.

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